Sex selection is the attempt to control the sex of the offspring to achieve a desired sex. It can be accomplished in several ways, both pre- and post-implantation...
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showing that sex selection practices have persisted among diaspora communities from 1999 to 2019. Research into the past four decades of sex-selective abortions...
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary...
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equilibrium sex ratio maintained by natural selection? For a sequential hermaphrodite, what is the equilibrium sex order and time of sex change? For a...
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mammals, the sex of an individual is usually identified through observation of that individual's sexual characteristics. Sexual selection or mate choice...
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Sexual selection is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and...
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practices of prenatal sex-selection are those with birth sex ratios of 1.08 and above (selection against females) and 1.02 and below (selection against males)...
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scholars have been continuously analyzing and generating connections among sex-selection, abortion policies, gender discrimination, and other cultural factors...
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selection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Selection may refer to: Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution Sex selection...
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Female foeticide in India (redirect from Sex selection in India)
predominant majority is Muslim, Sikh or Christian. These data suggest that sex selection is a practice which takes place among some educated, rich sections or...
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Sexual dimorphism (redirect from Sex dimorphism)
coloration of sexes within a given species is called sexual dichromatism, commonly seen in many species of birds and reptiles. Sexual selection leads to exaggerated...
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Baby Tower (category Sex selection in China)
and is related to the significant gender imbalance in China. Sex-ratio imbalance in China Sex-selective abortion Female infanticide in China Lee 1981, p...
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Sperm sorting (section For sex selection)
healthy, as well as for determination of more specific traits, such as sex selection in which spermatozoa are separated into X- (female) and Y- (male) chromosome...
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A sex organ, also known as a reproductive organ, is a part of an organism that is involved in sexual reproduction. Sex organs constitute the primary sex...
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PIP. Ensuring Access to Safe Abortion and Addressing Gender Biased Sex Selection: The MTP Act and the PC&PNDT Acts are designed to regulate completely...
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X syndrome and haemophilia. Preparation, for any sex-dependent aspects of parenting. Sex selection, which after preimplantation genetic diagnosis may...
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In vitro fertilisation (redirect from Embryo selection)
want prenatal sex discernment. This can be used to diagnose monogenic disorders with sex linkage. It can potentially be used for sex selection, wherein a...
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it is crucial to both outlaw sex selection and fix the primary issue of son preference. Many laws already forbid fetal sex determination throughout countries...
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Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (redirect from Pre-conception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act)
techniques, like in vitro fertilisation (IVF) with the potential of sex selection (Preimplantation genetic diagnosis) before and after conception, comes...
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the sexes of a species. In evolution, secondary sex characteristics are the product of sexual selection for traits that show fitness, giving an organism...
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Infanticide (redirect from Sex-selective infanticide)
neonaticide in some cases. Sex selection may be one of the contributing factors of infanticide. In the absence of sex-selective abortion, sex-selective infanticide[dead...
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sexual selection. Sex differences in medicine include sex-specific diseases, which are diseases that occur only in people of one sex; and sex-related...
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humans. Sexual selection is a biological way one sex chooses a mate for the best reproductive success. Most compete with others of the same sex for the best...
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The Ericsson method is an assisted reproductive technology for sex selection, used before implantation. In this method, sperm that will give rise to male...
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Sperm bank (section Sex selection)
female chromosome pair (XX), at the bottom, thus allowing selection and storage according to sex. The alternative process is the Percoll Method which is...
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Fertility tourism (section Sex selection)
the sought procedure for 80% of cross-border treatments by Canadians. Sex selection is prohibited in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia...
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chromosomes could be responsible for sex selection.[better source needed] One possible gene that could determine sex in birds is the DMRT1 gene. Studies...
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Abortion (section Sex-selective abortion)
gender-biased sex selection" (PDF). UNFPA. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011. "Prenatal sex selection" (PDF). Parliamentary...
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European corn borer (section Sex selection)
European corn borers produce sex pheromones. There are two strains of European corn borers that are defined by their sex pheromone communication variant...
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Sex allocation is the allocation of resources to male versus female reproduction in sexual species.[page needed] Sex allocation theory tries to explain...
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